Call Method by String

Hey I'm wondering if it is possible to call a method from a its own class by the function name or something similar

Eg

Code:

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public class Xyz
{
    public void foo()
    {
        this.cassMethodFunction("bar")
    }
    public void bar()
    {
        System.out.println("Hello World!");
    }
}

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I quickly threw this together it's a bit messed up but seems to do what you want

Code:

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import java.lang.reflect.*;
public class EditCanvas{

        public EditCanvas(){
                try {
                        Method m = this.getClass().getDeclaredMethod("printit",(Class[])null);
                        try {
                                m.invoke(this,(Object[])null);
                        } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
                                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                                e.printStackTrace();
                        } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
                                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                                e.printStackTrace();
                        } catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
                                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                                e.printStackTrace();
                        }
                } catch (SecurityException e) {
                        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                        e.printStackTrace();
                } catch (NoSuchMethodException e) {
                        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                        e.printStackTrace();
                }
        }
       
        public void printit(){
                System.out.println("test");
        }
        public static void main(String[] args) {
                EditCanvas c = new EditCanvas();
        }


}

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All that isn't necessary.

Code:

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public class methodCalling
{
    public void methodOne()
    {
        System.out.println("Hello, world!");
    }

    public void methodTwo()
    {
        //Call 'methodOne'
        methodOne();
    }
}

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Tried and tested it, it does exactly what you want.

He doesn't want to call the method the normal way. He wants to use a string value to call the method by name.

Reflection is your friend ;)

Cheers DeadEyes, haven't been able to test it out yet because im away for the weekend, but it looks exaclty like what i want.

Thanks